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Gesher's fifth, sixth, and seventh graders had a special conversation with retired Mets baseball player, Art Shamsky when he came to visit the school on Friday May 5 after speaking at the previous evening's Gesher with a TWIST event.
"Things have a way of working out; never give up. Work hard, practice, you never know who is watching. The world can open up for you at the most unexpected moment," he said.


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Coast Guard scored five goals in the opening quarter and led 5-0 at the end of one. The Mariners responded with three-straight over the first 11-plus minutes of the second quarter before the Bears closed out the scoring in the half with just 15 seconds left to take a 6-3 lead into the break.
The two teams traded the next four goals, with Merchant Marine scoring first and Coast Guard answering, until about midway through the third when the Mariners started getting some momentum. They finished the quarter with back-to-back tallies and then tied it up with the first goal of the fourth.
The Bears scored two quick ones halfway through the quarter, but USMMA got them back and tied it up at 10-10 at 3:11 on Renard's second goal of the day, which was his 200th point.
After Coast Guard scored with just 1:51 to play, the Mariners won the ensuing faceoff and junior Nick Roros (Northport, N.Y.) found the back of the net off a feed from behind by classmate Mike Morsberger (Catonsville, Md.) to knot it up at 11-11 with 39 second left. The Mariners won the next faceoff and the Bears forced a turnover, but the Merchant Marine defense didn't even allow a shot and regulation ended.
In overtime, Coast Guard won the opening faceoff, but Morsberger picked off a pass and the Mariners had possession for a good chunk of the four-minute sudden-victory period. They fired off two shots, both by junior Liam Connors (Bellmore, N.Y.) but the first went high and the second wide before they got called for a shot-clock violation.
The Bears marched up the field with about a minute to play and also got off two shots, the first sailed wide, but the second found twine for the game-winner with 11 seconds left.
Renard and Roros both had four-point games, as Roros found the back of the net four times, while Connors produced three assists and Morsberger recorded one tally and two helpers. Junior John Maudsley (Wilton, Conn.) had a two-goal game and seniors Michael Rodriguez (Coronado, Calif.) and Matt Kane (Lewes, Del.) both scored once.
In goal, sophomore Brendan Kane (Lewes, Del.) made some key saves in big moments, as he ended the day with nine stops in almost 50 minutes of action. Junior Zac Tilley (Carolina Beach, N.C.) started and played the first quarter, making two saves in 15 minutes.
In the faceoff-X, junior Kyle Buser (Babylon, N.Y.) won 13 faceoffs and he also tied for the game-high with nine groundballs. Rodriguez scooped up four GBs, while Roros, Renard and freshman defender Jason Aiello (Northport, N.Y.) had three each. Aiello also led all players in the game with three caused-turnovers and Morsberger caused two Bear turnovers.
For Coast Guard, junior Riley McNulty had a team-high four goals, while senior Anthony Wyler scored three times, including the game-winner in overtime. Sophomores Matty Johnson and Conor Rowan both added two goals apiece. Freshman Logan Tobias won seven faceoffs on the day. Defensively, junior Justin Edwards caused a team-best two turnovers and tied for the game-high with nine groundballs. Senior goalie Trey Johnson added six GBs and also made 12 saves to record the victory between the pipes.
The Mariners' next game is Saturday, March 30, at home against UMass-Boston beginning at 12-noon at Brooks Stadium. Live stats and a live video feed of the game will be available with links on the USMMA Men's Lacrosse Schedule Page.


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Q: How to convert a tainted string into a string in nim I want to read a file line by line in nim, like this:
for line in lines "myfile.txt":
  echo line

and now, in the loop (instead of the 'echo') I want to check if the line starts with, let's say 'abc'.
The problem is, that line is a TaintedString and the proc 'startsWith' I'd like to use, expects a string (not a TaintedString).
So the question is: What's the way to go, here? Should I convert the 'line' into a string and if yes, how? Or is there better way to do that?

A: Oh. It seems to work with startsWith(..)
You can just call the proc from the string type.

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Q: How to transform a string with a list of dicts within just to a list I do have  next string:
"[
    {
     "name" : "name_1",
     "codes" : ["some_code_1", "some_code_2"]
     },

     {
     "name" : "name_2",
     "codes" : ["some_code_1", "some_code_2"]
     }

]"

How can I make this string to be just a list type ?

A: You could evaluate using the builtin eval wich i DO NOT RECOMMEND, or the "safe version" by ast wich is ast.literal_eval, but these two each have problems. The builtin eval() has security issues and the "safe" version is very rigorous in order to prevent malicious code.
I would suggest the JSON library, which provides a set of tools to encode and decode with json.
Just do this:
>> import json
>> to_decode = """
[
 {
  "name" : "name_1",
  "codes" : ["some_code_1", "some_code_2"]
 },

 {
  "name" : "name_2",
  "codes" : ["some_code_1", "some_code_2"]
 }
]"""
>>> #to decode it here is the solution...
>>> json.JSONDecoder().decode(to_decode)
[
{
 "name" : "name_1",
 "codes" : ["some_code_1", "some_code_2"]
 },

 {
 "name" : "name_2",
 "codes" : ["some_code_1", "some_code_2"]
 }
]

Or you could use the loads() function instead:
>>> json.loads(to_decode)

A: Try using the json library:
import json

sampleString = """
[
    {
        "name" : "name_1",
        "codes" : ["some_code_1", "some_code_2"]
    },

    {
        "name" : "name_2",
        "codes" : ["some_code_1", "some_code_2"]
    }

]
"""

processedList = json.loads(sampleString)

print(processedList)


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by midnight, mia james, mystery, review, urban fantasy, YA
Review: By Midnight by Mia James
By Midnight by Mia James (review copy) - April Dunne is not impressed. She's had to move from Edinburgh to Highgate, London, with her parents. She's left her friends - and her entire life - behind. She has to start at a new school and, worst of all, now she's stuck in a creepy old dump of a house which doesn't even have proper mobile phone reception. Ravenwood, her new school, is a prestigious academy for gifted (financially or academically) students - and the only place her parents could find her a place, in the middle of term, in the middle of London, on incredibly short notice. So she's stuck with the super-rich, and the super-smart ...and trying to fit in is when the rest of the students seem to be more glamorous, smarter, or more talented than she is, is more than tough. It's intimidating and isolating, even when she finds a friend in the conspiracy-theorist Caro Jackson - and perhaps finds something more than friendship in the gorgeous, mysterious Gabriel Swift.
But there's more going on at Ravenwood than meets the eye. Practical jokes on new students are normal, but when Gabriel saves her from...something...in the Highgate Cemetery, and then she discovers that a murder took place, just yards away from where she had been standing, April has to wonder if something more sinister is going on.
...and whether or not she's going to live through it... From Amazon UK
I love me some vampires, yes I do! So for the simply fact that By Midnight had vampires in it was a definite plus in it's favour for me reading it. However, I am not a fan of books where people are popular and rich and focus all their attention on either how they look or putting others down. From the blurb above, I assumed that's what I would find, among other things, in this book, and it did put me off for a while - hence the fact that I've only just read it. But I picked it up recently when trying to decide what to read next, and vampires and murders and cememtries... well, my interest was piqued enough to know now was the time to give it a go.
By Midnight is a really good stry, but it's not what I expected. I know it's a mystery, but the fact that it's about vampires, I expected a bit more of the supernatural element. You know, maybe April stumbling across some vampires being vampish and drinking blood or being extra strong or something, but there isn't much of anything along those lines in the book until much later on. It really is a mystery. April doesn't find out the existance of vampires by accident, but through trying to work out who's behind various murders. Through clues, and books, and talking to people, and going about things the old fashioned way.
I have to say, the research part of the book was just awesome! This book is loosely based on actual real life legends of the Highgate Vamire, people actually believed there was one in Highgate Cemetary, which features hugely in this book. Real places with real "supernatural" history are the settings for this story, which just add credibility to this story which is just wonderful. I actually want to go visit Highgate Cemetary now because it sounds wonderful. But I also love the research April does herself into vampires; the old victorian books she reads that are just full of brilliant myths and folklore, and, oooh, I want those books! It was just fascinating!
The mythology James has created for her story is just wonderful, but highly intriguing. There is still a big mystery, and the mechanics of the vampire society, if you will - or what we know of it so far - is just so interesting. There's a lot of conspiracies going on, and because of this I can't tell you much more, but I can't wait to find out more about vampires as a whole, and the specifics that April is interested in in the later books.
Thankfully, there wasn't too much queen bee bitching going on to wind me up, but there were elements of By Midnight that did annoy me. April is 16 and starting her A-Levels. I remember being that age, and the people around me. April was sometimes too immature and shallow for her age, and I just wanted to shake her and yell at her to grow up. She could be so fickle, swayed too easily by good looks. And when she had an inkling as to what was going on, she would jump back and forth over whether she was right or wrong, without actually listning to what would give her the answers she would need to know either way. She really wound me up, and I have to say, I'm not her biggest fan.
But still, the story was really, really intriguing, and I'm really looking forward to reading the sequel Darkness Falls. A pretty good book!
Thank you to Gollancz for sending me a review copy.
Published: 22nd July 2010
Publisher: Gollancz YA
Buy from Amazon US
The Ravenwood Mysteries Website
Michelle Fluttering Butterflies 24 September 2011 at 10:55
I enjoyed it as well. I too am sometimes put off by rich, bitchy groups of people, but I loved the atmosphere of this one with the cemetary and the spooky old school and stuff. I'm currently reading Darkness Falls and it's interesting going back to this story and the characters.
I agree, the cemetary was just awesome! /though I didn't think of it as creepy, more as beautiful, lol. I received Darkness Falls today! :D Looking forward to reading it! :)
LoriStrongin 26 September 2011 at 00:39
Thanks for the honest review. Though I'm a big fan of books that pull in real historical elements from the settings as well as boarding school books, flighty/inconsistent characters turn me off. Sounds like April would be more frustrating than intriguing at points. So I might wait a bit more before picking up a copy of this one.
No problem. She is a little annoying, but I found the story itself made up for her character. I' really looking forward to the sequel :)

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Marjolein van den Brink
Utrecht University - Faculty of Law
Janskerkhof 3
Utrecht, 3512 BK
Utrecht University School of Law (the Netherlands)
3508 TC Utrecht
Conscientious Objection to Creating Same-Sex Unions: An International Analysis
Canadian Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 127-164, 2012
Bruce MacDougall, Elsje Bonthuys, Kenneth Norrie and Marjolein van den Brink
University of British Columbia (UBC), Faculty of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, University of Strathclyde and Utrecht University - Faculty of Law
Marriage ceremonies, Gay marriage, Same-sex marriage, Gay rights, Discrimination, Accommodation
Sex Segregation and Equality in a Multicultural Society: Inferiority as a Standard for Legal Acceptability
Utrecht Law Review, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 115-144, June 2010
Marjolein van den Brink, Titia Loenen and Jet Tigchelaar
Utrecht University - Faculty of Law, Utrecht University School of Law (the Netherlands) and Utrecht University - Faculty of Law
sex segregation, equality, discrimination, anti-domination, inferiority, multicultural


New Housing Law: two new Housing Bills have been introduced which are designed to radically reform housing law in both the public and private sectors. For the Housing (Wales) Bill introduced in the Welsh Assembly, click here. For the Explanatory Memorandum, click here. For the timetable for legislative scrutiny, click here. For the Housing (Scotland) Bill introduced in the Scottish Parliament, click here. For the Explanatory Notes, click here. For the timetable for legislative scrutiny, click here.
New Housing Strategy: the Mayor of London has launched a consultation on a draft revised Housing Strategy for London. The consultation closes on 17 January 2014. For a copy of the consultation draft, click here. For the background to the consultation, click here.
Homelessness: despite the abolition of "priority need" on 31 December 2012, the number of homelessness applications made to councils in Scotland has been falling in 2013. This is said to be due to effective homelessness prevention and to housing options measures. However, the number of households in homelessness temporary accommodation had increased to 10,494 on 30 June 2013. For the latest statistics, click here.
Housing and Human Rights: the Lord Chancellor has told Parliament, in an urgent statement, that he does not accept the view expressed in the recent "AB" case (see last week's Bulletin) that the Charter is directly enforceable in the UK courts. He is seeking a test case to clarify the position. For his statement, click here. Meanwhile, the Council of Europe is conducting a consultation on the longer term future of its Convention on Human Rights and its Court. For details of the consultation, click here.
Social Housing management: two new guides have been published about engagement between social landlords and their tenants. Strong Foundations: Building a better dialogue between tenants and landlords contains a useful analysis of how social landlords can maintain and develop relationships with their tenants through the welfare reform changes. For a copy, click here. The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) has published How to ... communicate with tenants about fire safety. For a copy of that, click here.
Housing & Anti-Social behaviour: on 25 November 2013 the UK Government published details of the progress that its Troubled Families initiative is making in tackling the causes of anti-social behaviour. For the detailed breakdown, click here. For the accompanying announcement, click here.
The "bedroom tax" and other Housing Benefit issues: a new analysis of recent successful bedroom tax appeals to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Entitlement Chamber) has been published by CIH Scotland. For a copy, click here. For an article describing how social landlords are responding to the impacts of the bedroom tax, click here. The hardest impact of the change has been (as expected) in Wales. For an article that sets out the extent of that impact, click here. For the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) Circular on the new Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Size Criteria) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 and The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Amendment (No.2) Order 2013 click here. For the latest briefing on Paying Housing Benefit direct to tenants in social rented housing from the House of Commons Library click here.
Rent and mortgage arrears: the causes and consequences of default on debts like mortgage and rent repayments are identified in a new report, Maxed Out: Serious Personal Debt in Britain. For a copy, click here.
Private renting: on 19 November 2013 the UK Government published the detailed conditions which organisations setting up redress schemes for private tenants in England will need to meet in order to secure their approval by the Secretary of State. For a copy of the conditions, click here. Meanwhile, an amendment made to the Energy Bill on 19 November 2013 gives the Government enabling powers to introduce a requirement for carbon and/or smoke alarms in private rented homes (although these will only be used if supported by the review of conditions in the sector which will consider the technical issues and the current overlapping regulatory regimes). For the Government announcement, click here.
The defendant was a private landlord. In January 2013 he installed a gas boiler and pipework in a tenanted home without using a Gas Safe engineer. His tenants complained of the smell of gas and the landlord returned three times to try and fix the problem before, in May 2013, a qualified specialist disconnected the supply. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) brought a prosecution for three separate breaches of the gas safety regulations. The defendant was sentenced to six months' immediate imprisonment on his guilty pleas. Costs of £1852 were awarded. For details of the prosecution, click here.
Mr Noel became homeless when he lost his accommodation by being evicted for rent arrears. The council decided that he had become homeless intentionally because he had taken on the tenancy of the property knowing that it was too large for him and that he could not afford it. That decision was upheld on review and on appeal to the county court. He brought a second appeal on the basis that he could not have become homeless intentionally because his accommodation did not count as it was not 'reasonable to continue to occupy'. The council should have asked that question in relation to his previous home. The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal. Mr Noel could reasonably have continued in occupation by applying all his housing benefit towards the rent and by increasing his income to meet any shortfall.
Ms Huzrat was evicted from her accommodation for rent arrears. She applied as homeless. She said she had been unable to meet her housing costs as well as the costs of raising her three children. The council decided that she had become homeless intentionally because an income and expenditure assessment showed she could have met the rent and her basic living expenses. Her challenge to that decision was rejected on review and on appeal. She then argued that the council had failed to comply with its duty to give priority to the interests of her children (Children Act 2004 section 11). The Court of Appeal dismissed a second appeal. The section 11 duty had applied to the council's decision-making but applying it did not change the result.
The defendant's husband had been a council tenant in succession to his mother. When he died there could be no further succession. The defendant and the couple's children remained in the house but the council sought possession. The defendant's defence was that the decision to seek possession had been unlawful because the council had failed to consider granting a new tenancy of the house as a 'direct let' under the 'exceptional circumstances' provision in its housing allocation scheme. It said she had not made a formal application complying with its scheme. The possession claim was dismissed. The council's appeal to the Court of Appeal was also dismissed. The council had acted unlawfully in commencing possession proceedings against the defendant without giving any or any proper consideration to the option of making a direct let. For the judgment, click here.
The council agreed to exercise its powers under Children Act 1989 section 17 to provide alternative accommodation for a mother facing eviction with her two young children. The claimant (aged 20) was the mother's niece and had lived with the family. The council declined to accommodate her. She was unlawfully in the UK with no access to welfare benefits or housing or social services. She sought a judicial review. The High Court dismissed the claim. The claimant was not entitled to be accommodated with the family under section 17, following a social worker's assessment. The council could not be required to use alternative powers to assist her when the statutory regimes of social welfare had been drawn to design-out assistance for those unlawfully in the UK.
The council found a multi-tenanted house was occupied by ten people living with serious disrepair and in conditions amounting to a serious fire hazard. It brought prosecutions against both the property owner (BDB Developments Ltd) and the manager of the property (Mr Najim). On the trial date, the company was fined £10,000 with £6,172 costs but the manager failed to appear. A warrant was issued for his arrest and his trial rescheduled. When he again failed to appear, Willesden Magistrates' Court fined him £12,000 in his absence and awarded a further £5,072 in costs. For details of the prosecution, click here.
The council received an application for consent to mutual exchange from one of two joint tenants. It had previously served an abatement notice in respect of noise nuisance he had created, his music equipment had been seized twice and he had breached the notices and there had been legal proceedings but no claim for possession. Even though he did not have the consent of the other joint tenant, the council approved his application and he moved to a housing association property. The council did not alert the association to his background. He then committed nuisance in his new home. His new landlord seized more music equipment and obtained injunctions and a possession order. It incurred legal costs of over £15,000. The Local Government Ombudsman found that the council had been guilty of maladministration in approving the application and recommended £1500 compensation for the tenant's most recent neighbour. For the full investigation report, click here.
The council notified a decision on the claimant's homelessness application. She made an application for a review and on her behalf Shelter raised new points which had not been considered in the original decision. Did that make the original decision 'deficient' so that the reviewing officer had to follow the "minded to" letter procedure and offer an oral hearing? The Court of Appeal decided that the correct answer to that question justified the grant of permission to bring a second appeal. To monitor the progress of the appeal, click here.
Housing allocations: Go home foreigners?


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Nigeria records 5,400 deaths in 12,077 road crashes in 2015 – FRSC
The Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, says a total of 12, 077 road crashes were recorded across the country in 2015, the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports.
The FRSC Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi, disclosed this in Uyo on Wednesday while addressing a public enlightenment forum organised for transport stakeholders at old Akwa Transport Corporation (AKTC) park.
Mr. Oyeyemi was represented at the event by the Assistant Corps Marshal in charge of Policy, Research and Statistics, Michael Olagunju.
He said out of 12,077 road crashes recorded last year, 5,400 people representing 65 per cent of those involved in the crashes lost their lives.
Mr. Oyeyemi said the commission would not go back on the October1 deadline for the implementation of speed limiting device nationwide as approved President Muhammadu Buhari.
The corps marshal regretted that most of the crashes would have been avoided if appropriate safety measures were adopted by the motorists while plying the highways.
He described the statistics on road crashes as staggering and reiterated that the speed limiting device would save Nigerians the embarrassment on the highways.
"Most of the road crashes are preventable, if we are able to bring down the speed, we will be saving a lot of lives on our highways," Mr. Oyeyemi said.
In his remarks, the State Transport Commissioner, Godwin Ntukude, expressed satisfaction with the introduction of the speed limiting device.
Mr. Ntukude called for a technical session with all stakeholders to enlighten them on the workability of the device.
"There is no policy introduced by government that will not have a positive effect on lives of the people.
"Let us have technical session with experts to ascertain whether it can be installed on an expired (Tokunbo) vehicle or not.
"It is important for us to know this so that the good policy would not work otherwise negatively," Mr. Ntukude said.
Earlier, the FRSC Public Relations Officer, Godgift Uwen, said that the introduction of speed limiting device would make Nigeria join the league of nations like Japan, Australia and Sweden.
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WASHINGTON — A new contract from NASA to build the agency's Restore-L satellite servicing spacecraft could bring Space Systems Loral that much closer to launching its own satellite servicing business.
NASA awarded the contract to SSL Dec. 5, tasking the company with supplying a chassis, hardware and services for the mission. The Palo Alto, California-based satellite builder is responsible for supporting integration, test, launch and operations.
The purpose of Restore-L is to demonstrate the ability to refuel a satellite in orbit, including those not designed to have their fuel tanks opened in space. In-orbit refueling has the potential to extend the lives of otherwise healthy spacecraft that have exhausted their propellants.
SSL, with parent company MDA of Canada, has been actively entertaining the notion of launching a commercial in-orbit servicing business, one that would combine MDA's past experience from the almost-launched Space Infrastructure Services system in the early 2010s with SSL's knowledge of satellite manufacturing. Steve Oldham, the former president of MDA's Space Infrastructure Services division who currently leads strategic business development at SSL, said the company has interest from prospective customers in using an SSL-built servicer, and that the MDA board of directors expects to make a decision on relaunching such a business through SSL in the very near future.
SSL has been steadily accruing space robotics experience through other government programs with NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The Restore-L contract adds to that base, especially given NASA's intentions of transferring technology from the program to commercial entities.
Restore-L is intended for launch in 2020, after which NASA will direct the spacecraft to dock with Landsat-7 in low Earth orbit for a test flight. Landsat-7 launched in 1999 aboard a Delta 2 rocket, and will have been in orbit for more than two decades based on current mission timelines.
NASA's contract with SSL has a maximum value of $127 million and includes a three-year core period coupled with a two-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity portion. The agency's Satellite Servicing Projects Division at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, is managing Restore-L. Along with in-orbit fueling, the agency believes Restore-L can potentially contribute to in-orbit repairs, spacecraft assembly, de-orbiting and debris removal.


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Meet the Journalists: Nick Schifrin and Zach Fannin in Cuba
Resource January 12, 2017
Nick Schifrin
Zach Fannin
Cuba After Fidel
While many in Cuba mourn the passing of Fidel Castro, others are more than ready for change.
Multiple Authors
The remains of Fidel Castro traveled along a 500 mile journey from Havana to Santiago, his final resting place—the exact reverse journey Castro took when he launched his 1959 revolution. Image by Zach Fannin. Cuba, 2016.
PBS NewsHour takes us to Cuba after Fidel Castro's death to report on the cruelty and charisma that the former president used to dominate his country for half a century. Along the route that his ashes traveled from Havana to Santiago, multiple generations of Cubans express none of the Castro loathing heard in the United States—only love. But outside the cities, impoverished Cubans who feel more free to criticize their government say the economic promises of the revolution have not been fulfilled. Dissidents describe how Cubans can criticize the government, but only generically, and not in public demonstrations. That doesn't mean, though, that Cubans haven't figured out ways to evolve. Cubans trade hard drives full of the entertainment unavailable to them online or on television. And half a million Cubans have joined the private sector, making exponentially more than government employees and, in so doing, are challenging the revolution's socialist principles. Moving forward, the Cuban government will need to maintain the safety net of free education and health care that so many Cubans hold up as the revolution's greatest legacies, but at the same time ease widespread economic frustration that Castro's policies helped create.
PART OF: Cuba After Fidel
Fidel Castro Laid to Rest in Private Ceremony
Cuban Attitudes Toward Castro Range from Devout to Cynical


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Dan Clough column: Now is the time for Venky's to be heard
By Dan Clough
Corry Evans tracks his man at Birmingham
IF I had a business in, let's say, Pune in India, and I decided to rock up because the president was in town, I think I would pop along and have a look at the workforce.
So it was a bit bemusing that Balaji and Venkatesh made the round-the-world trip to Blackburn to wave at the Queen, who probably hasn't a clue who they are, only to go back to India without bothering to watch the match the following day.
Maybe they knew in advance how bad it was going to be?
Either way, it is about time our owners came back for a look at the place on a matchday.
After all the mistakes of their first couple of years in charge they, quite rightly, backed away.
But I think the worst of the bad feeling is subsiding as fortunes on the pitch begin to improve.
Yes we're unlikely to make the play-offs, but the (I'm going to use the 's' word again) stability is there, we are not in a relegation battle and we have almost challenged for a place in the top six.
There's been no talk of Ronaldinho, Maradona or Beckham, only 'proper' players coming in like Tom Cairney, Rudy Gestede and Craig Conway.
The sorts of players you build a decent Championship club around and the sorts of players who haven't cost the earth.
We haven't heard from Venky's all season and, for the most part, that has probably been a good thing.
But with the season coming to a close and the club, hopefully, ready to have a good go at promotion next season, now is the time for them to reach out to the fans.


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25 Guiding Lights
By Coastal Living
John Sylvester
We shine a spotlight on our favorite lighthouses from coast to coast.
Keeping House
Eric Roth
Towering over the rocks at the western end of Cape Cod, Wings Neck Lighthouse stands tall. Constructed in 1890 and deactivated in 1945, it remains a landmark on the Massachusetts coast. Today, the historic light has been meticulously restored and now houses overnight guests. The keeper's cottage sleeps eight, and includes a living room with stone fireplace and a crisp, white, eat-in kitchen.
The Pointe à la Renommée Light is a bright, cast-iron addition to the coast of Canada. The current tower was built in 1907 near L'Anse―Valleau on Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula. It stands at 49 feet with an adjacent museum/gift shop.
You can walk, bike, or drive to Block Island's two lighthouses, North Light and Southeast Light (shown here), both open to visitors seasonally. The island, accessible by ferry, is part of Rhode Island.
The owners of this sunny lighthouse on Michigan's Grand Island modernized the 19th-century structure without compromising its historic charm. Although strikingly beautiful with spectacular views of Lake Superior, the property isn't easy to reach and remains closed to the public.
The 1857-vintage New Dungeness Light Station is at the tip of the Dungeness Spit near Sequim, Washington. Although this light is one of the oldest in the Northwest, it's still active as a navigational aid.
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Little Brewster Island, in the outer reaches of Boston Harbor, consists of only about 1.5 acres of land―just enough for the 89-foot Boston Light and its support buildings. At the top of the tower, visitors can enjoy views of the Boston skyline, a close look at the lens, and a deep appreciation for the only Coast Guard lighthouse stations still staffed.
Illuminating the Scene
The automated beacon on Heceta Head's 56-foot tower casts the strongest light on this stretch of Oregon coastline. For optimal views of this stunning sight, drive south from Yachats at dusk, head toward the mouth of Cape Creek, then just follow the glow.
Split Rock Lighthouse stands at dawn on its cliff-top home along Lake Superior near Beaver Bay, Minnesota. The lighthouse, completed in 1910, has been dark since 1969―except for an annual lighting on November 10 to commemorate sailors lost in Great Lakes shipwrecks.
Bay Watch
This New Brunswick lighthouse sports the colors of the Acadian flag. Now used as a tourism center, it stands on the edge of the Bay of Chaleur on Route 11 in Grand-Anse.
Majestic Views
This stunning black-and-white spiral lighthouse, 165 feet tall, was established in 1874. Located on Florida's Anastasia Island, St. Augustine Light doubles as a museum.
Yaquina Head ranks high among destinations for understanding how a lighthouse works, and accessible walkways and exhibits draw throngs of visitors to this spot on the Oregon shore. Visitors can climb 93 feet to the lantern and watch the 1,000-watt electric bulb switch on and off.
Miles and Miles
Gibbs Hill Lighthouse, opened in 1846, stands 117 feet tall and, counting the hill, 362 feet above sea level. The beam can be seen 40 miles out to sea. Those who climb the tower get spectacular views of Bermuda.
Singular Star
North Light keeps a lonely vigil on Block Island's northernmost tip. The Rhode Island lighthouse is open to visitors seasonally.
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The Umpqua River Light stands on a hill 165 feet above sea level at Winchester Bay, Oregon. The 61-foot tower has a unique Fresnel lens that casts red and white lights out to sea.
Cap-des-Rosiers Lighthouse, Canada's tallest (112 feet), has stood near the tip of Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula since 1858.
Visitors to Nantucket will find the coastline dotted with historic lighthouses, including Brant Point, the second-oldest light station in America. Existing structures include the circa-1856 lighthouse and keeper's house, two range light towers (1908), oil house, storage building, garage, and boathouse (1936). It remains an active U.S. Coast Guard navigational aid.
David Sanger
Stornetta Public Lands borders one of California's most scenic peninsulas, site of the Point Arena Lighthouse. Both the lighthouse and museum are open daily and allow visitors to climb the 115 feet to the top for scenic views of the Pacific Ocean.
Maine's official state quarter displays a schooner passing this structure―the Pemaquid Point Light. The tower, 38 feet tall, has been deemed Maine's "prettiest lighthouse."
Beautiful Vistas
Washington's privately owned Dimick House is a replica of the 1906 MukilteoLighthouse on Puget Sound. Although it doesn't have a beacon, this relatively young light (circa 1990) still has a 50-foot tower accessible by spiral staircase. The glassed-in viewing platform with wraparound outdoor deck provides sweeping views of Port Townsend and the mountains, water, and island beyond.
Untamed Landscape
On 4-mile-long Quirpon (kar-POON) Island on the tip of Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula, the working Quirpon Island lighthouse (1922) and other support structures compose a cozy inn. In spring, the setting makes an ideal viewpoint for both icebergs and whales that glide past and is one that "Captain Ahab would give his other leg for," one visitor wrote.
Matthew Gilson
Along its 300 miles of rugged shoreline, Wisconsin's Door County is home to 12 lighthouses, not all open to the public but easily admired by land or water. Cana Island Lighthouse (shown) near Baileys Harbor shines for location, accessibility, and year-round photo ops.
Island Beauty
Curtis Island Light, a modest 25 feet tall, has stood at the entrance to Maine's Camden Harbor since 1896. The light is not open to the public but is visible from shore.
Small Wonder
Michael Hanson
Capes Meares Lighthouse is Oregon's shortest at just 38 feet tall. But the small landmark provides big whale-watching views during the great Pacific Ocean migration.
Light Bright
On the easternmost point in the U.S., the West Quoddy Head Light in Lubec, Maine, still shines bright. At 49 feet, its third-order Fresnel lens (1858) beckons to boats in the Bay of Fundy. Just a short walk from the entrance of West Quoddy State Park, a visitors center/museum in the keeper's house is open to the public; it's just a short stroll from the entrance of West Quoddy State Park.
Striking A Pose
One of Nova Scotia's biggest tourist attractions, Peggy's Point claims to be the most photographed lighthouse in Canada. The red-and-white beacon makes up one of several dozen lighthouses along a nearly 200-mile trail the Canadian government has marked with road signs.
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Making Magic in the Arena - Eldraine Courtside Brawl
I had a deck planned to run for this latest Magic the Gathering: Arena, but on the day of recording there was an announcement that caused me to amend my plans. Although the next set, Throne of Eldraine, won't be released for another few weeks, the new Brawl Pre-constructed decks, and the Brawl format itself, would be playable in Arena as part of a special event.
And so, I decided to give these decks and format a try. Out of the 4 possible deck lists available for this event, I gave two of them a shot: The Wild Bounty deck helmed by Chulane, Teller of Tales and the Savage Hunter deck with Korvold, Fae-Cursed King leading it.
Before I get into my thoughts, I should explain the Brawl format, and how it differs from Commander. Here are the rules:
The format utilizes the same pool as the Standard rotation. Only cards that are Standard legal may be used in a Brawl deck, distinguishing it from non-rotating formats.
One Legendary Creature OR Planeswalker is chosen to helm the deck, that exists in the Commander Zone as it would in an EDH game. Standard Commander tax applies in the same way as EDH players are used to.
The normal color identity rules apply when building a deck, just as they would in Commander. However, instead of a 100-card singleton deck, it is only 60-cards (but still singleton).
Players start with 25 life, and there is no concept of Commander damage, but aside from that it's all the same.
For me, this will serve as an adequate substitute for Commander while playing on Arena specifically, but it also makes me sad that the Arena UI can't reasonably support 3 or 4-player games. I am aware that Brawl is supposed to be a 1v1 format, but what I enjoy most about formats like this are playing with groups of people. In it's current state, Arena can't be expected to support that.
As far as the pre-con decks themselves are concerned, I think they show off a lot of the potential that their commanders possess, but they're still pre-cons, much like Commander pre-cons. They play well against each other, but they're lacking in ways that I started to feel while I was playing the decks.
There's also the problem I was on both the giving and receiving end of where because these particular decks are so heavily reliant on their commanders, if they die then the decks are largely dead in the water. While removal is limited, there's enough of it where a few lucky draws and easily hose an opponent, and there wasn't enough adequate board clear to catch up when they pulled too far ahead.
Still, the new cards from Eldraine were a treat to play, and make me even more excited to get my hands on this set. Further, I am looking forward to building my own Brawl brews. Even if the format probably won't see much play outside of Arena, it does have its appeal.
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I love Tuscany, my homeland, I could not live away from it, I could not breathe!
I love cooking, although the results are not necessarily always worth eating.
I am a foodie, I love Italian and international food.
I love my tiny home, it's my own royal palace!
I love dogs, often significantly more brilliant than some people I know.
I love traveling the world, in the past I was a keen traveler, so I hope to find more time to start exploring again.
1992 was a crucial year for me. I have always loved cars and fast car races, so I decided to buy my first reflex camera, combining my biggest passion with another great one, photography. At first, capturing Formula 1 shots and races in general was just a hobby, the safety valve in my quiet, ordinary life as a computer programmer.
It was only a few years later, after a traumatic event, that I appreciated how deeply photography was rooted in me, and how greatly it would enrich the overly quiet life I knew I needed to change. You guessed it; I did not become a sports photographer, but unquestionably a professional photographer. Today, thanks to my passion for fast cars and motorbikes, I am a wedding photographer who has not forgotten his first love: I am still keen on races!
When I first used a camera, several years ago, I would never have imagined I could become a wedding photographer. Daniele and I opened our first studio in Montevarchi, near Florence, experimenting in different styles and adapting to the needs of the local clientele. Little by little, we realized what we were looking for in our photos was emotion, which still life or classical studio photography could not offer. Real people, their expressions, their emotions, this is what we wanted to capture. Choosing wedding photography was a natural consequence, as it offers the unique opportunity to capture human emotions in all their shades.
I never would have thought I could reach the professional rewards received these last few years. Yes, I had some dreams, but I thought that making them come true in such short time was utopian. I was awarded renowned prizes, and was listed among the top world wedding photographers. Prestigious magazines have published articles on my work and my style, the same unattainable reviews I used to read 20 years ago as an amateur. I have received requests to teach at important European photography schools (Madrid's EFTI, to name one that has stayed in my heart) teaching international photographers and students coming from all over the world. And lately, to my great satisfaction, I have been appointed as judge in one of the most renowned international contests of wedding photography. A dream come true, there is no better term to describe my work today.


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Age 40 in March 1862 when enlisted in the Spy Co. Born Kentucky.
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Everybody's got their favorite Halloween monstrosity. The undead (zombies, ghosts, mummies) are always popular, while the living, breathing beasts (your wolfmans, fish-persons, the Jersey Devil) have to spread what meager love they get between them. There is one particularly nasty abomination we don't hear a lot about, even in the new digital age: cyborg monstrosities. Warface is finally entrenching them as a Halloween staple with their new co-op mode, "Cyber Horde."
Nothing screams "trick or treat" like the torso and head of a mostly insane person trapped in a military-grade death machine.
You and four buddies find yourselves in the most terrifying Warface mission yet. Alone, at night, in a forest dotted with abandoned military compounds, you and your posse must guide a vehicle to the nefarious Blackwood laboratory. Your mission is to set explosives to detonate in the heart of the facility and neutralize enemy contact. Of course, Blackwood wouldn't hurl any boring old human opponents your way.
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Q: Proof of the following theorem on Exponential Families I unfortunately can't find a proof for the following theorem from Statistical Inference by Casella-Berger, Theorem 3.4.2, on exponential families.
It says the following:

If $X$ is a random variable with $pdf$ or $pmf$ of the form defining an exponential family, with $\theta$ and $x$ both vectors, then

$$
E\left[\frac{\partial}{\partial \theta_j} w^T(\theta) T(x)\right] = - \frac{\partial}{\partial \theta_j} \log c(\theta)
$$
Could someone possibly link me to a proof or explain the general process? My attempts proved to be unsuccessful...

A: A complete derivation for future reference since I couldn't find other examples of this form with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_family#Properties being the closest
Start with:
$$f(x|\theta) = h(x)c(\theta)e^{w^T(\theta)T(x)}$$
$$\int f(x|\theta) = \int h(x)c(\theta)e^{w^T(\theta)T(x)} dx = 1 $$
$$\frac {d}{d\theta}\int f(x|\theta) = \frac {d}{d\theta}\int h(x)c(\theta)e^{w^T(\theta)T(x)} dx = 0$$
$$=\int h(x)c'(\theta)e^{w^T(\theta)T(x)} dx +\int h(x)c(\theta)e^{w^T(\theta)T(x)}\biggr[\frac {\partial} {\partial \theta_j}w^T(\theta)T(x)\biggr]dx = 0$$
We use the fact that: $E\biggr[\frac {\partial} {\partial \theta_j}w^T(\theta)T(x)\biggr] = \int \biggr[\frac {\partial} {\partial \theta_j}w^T(\theta)T(x)\biggr]*h(x)c(\theta)e^{w^T(\theta)T(x)}dx$
$$=\int h(x)c'(\theta)e^{w^T(\theta)T(x)} dx + E\biggr[\frac {\partial} {\partial \theta_j}w^T(\theta)T(x)\biggr] =0 $$
Using log derivative by chain rule:
$\frac {\partial}{\partial\theta_j}log(c(\theta)) = \frac {c'(\theta)}{c(\theta)}$
$$=\int h(x)\biggr[\frac {\partial}{\partial\theta_j}log(c(\theta))\biggr]c(\theta)e^{w^T(\theta)T(x)} dx + E\biggr[\frac {\partial} {\partial \theta_j}w^T(\theta)T(x)\biggr] =0$$
$$=\frac {\partial}{\partial\theta_j}log(c(\theta))\int h(x)c(\theta)e^{w^T(\theta)T(x)} dx + E\biggr[\frac {\partial} {\partial \theta_j}w^T(\theta)T(x)\biggr] =0$$
Since we now have the full integral of a pdf:
$$=\frac {\partial}{\partial\theta_j}log(c(\theta)) + E\biggr[\frac {\partial} {\partial \theta_j}w^T(\theta)T(x)\biggr] = 0$$
$$-\frac {\partial}{\partial\theta_j}log(c(\theta)) = E\biggr[\frac {\partial} {\partial \theta_j}w^T(\theta)T(x)\biggr] $$


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Johnson's Duckpin Lanes
Since 1955, we've brought the unique duck pin bowling experience to Connecticut. Visit us and learn what has made us a staple among local residents for over 60 years. (Curated content from www.johnsonlanes.com)
Laurel View Country Club
Laurel View Country Club is an 18 hole public golf course in Hamden, Connecticut. (Curated content from www.facebook.com)
Eli Whitney Museum
The Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop is an experimental learning workshop for students, teachers, and families. We collect, interpret, and teach experiments that are the roots of design and invention. (Curated content from www.eliwhitney.org)
Escape New Haven
Voted CT's Best Escape Room in 2020 by the readers of CT Magazine, Escape New Haven is a real-life "escape room" — an adventure space where you are the main character and nothing is as it seems. You and your team are trapped; you have 60 minutes to escape the room by solving a series of puzzles that will challenge your mind and confound your senses. Explore, adapt, work together, think creatively… and you just might succeed. (Curated content from escapenewhaven.com)
Yale University Visitor Center
Yale College students provide a glimpse into the history and architecture of the University. The tours start at the Yale Visitor Center at 149 Elm Street New Haven, CT 06511. Hear about Yale's rich 300-year history and aspects of student life at several of Yale's fourteen residential colleges. The tour also includes the Gothic Sterling Memorial Library, Yale's largest, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. (Curated content from visitorcenter.yale.edu)
The Museum celebrated its sesquicentennial in 2016. A major renovation began in 2020 that will reinvent the Peabody for the 21st century and beyond. New and updated galleries and collection spaces will further establish the Yale Peabody Museum as a home for cutting-edge research, extraordinary education, and breathtaking exhibitions. We invite you to experience this incredible transformation with us. (Curated content from peabody.yale.edu)
The Yale Center for British Art holds the largest and most comprehensive collection of British art outside the United Kingdom. The Center's collections of paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, rare books, and manuscripts present the story of British art and culture, and its global contexts, from the fifteenth century to today. (Curated content from britishart.yale.edu)
Yale Collection of Musical Instruments
The Morris Steinert Collection of Musical Instruments is committed to fostering an understanding and appreciation of musical instruments from all cultures and periods. One of the foremost institutions of its kind, the Collection acquires, preserves, and exhibits musical instruments from antiquity to the present, and showcases restored examples in demonstrations and live performances. (Curated content from music.yale.edu)
The Yale University Art Gallery collects, preserves, studies, and presents art in all media, from all regions of the globe and across time. The museum's exceptional collection—numbering nearly 300,000 objects—is the core of its identity. It sustains and catalyzes all we do. (Curated content from artgallery.yale.edu)
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library holds one of the largest and most dynamic collections of rare books and manuscripts in the world. Its holdings draw hundreds of scholars, artists, and critics from around the world to the reading room each year. Thousands of students from Yale and beyond learn about the history of human thought through hands-on sessions with original artifacts in the Beinecke classrooms. Each year, new acquisitions build on the collections' strengths and establish new areas of excellence, affording opportunities for interdisciplinary research, scholarly exploration, creativity, and intellectual exchange. (Curated content from beinecke.library.yale.edu)


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January 3, 2006 By alastair Leave a Comment
Cyrano de Bergerac and his cousin Roxane are a couple of literature's most frustrated lovers. Fifteen years after the death of Roxane's late husband, Christian de Neuvillette, their relationship remains constrained by his memory.
Cyrano explains how the pair ended up in this situation. It's the story of how Roxane was seduced by Christian's words both written and spoken and how de Bergerac wrote those enticing entreaties to win the heart of the woman he loved for another.
Add in Cyrano's embarrassment about his rather prominent protuberance, dashing heroism and a sneaky rival in the shape of the Comte de Guiche and all the elements are in place for a classic historical romance.
This is not a tale that has hidden its light under a bushel. Movies in the shape of Cyrano, staring G'rard Depardieu, and Roxanne, Steve Martin, have brought this story to life in traditional and updated environments.
Geraldine McCaughrean's version is based on the original play by Edmond Rostand and opts for the traditional setting of seventeenth France. It has all the lyrical richness that the tale demands, Cyrano's swagger is admirably conveyed, Christian is suitably eager and dumb.
The machinations of the Comte provide a darker background for some of the more pantomime moments and everything floats along effortlessly.
It is also book that opens up the debate about the merits of retelling a classic tale: is such a work more valuable than the more 'full-on' challenge of inventing your own characters, setting and plot? Is it merely a buswoman's holiday for McCaughrean?
The marketing team at Oxford University Press won't care about such writerly concerns, however. They will simply be delighted with the January publication date.
After all, any young beau who wants to convince the object of his affections that he is in touch with his sensitive side on Valentine's day will find this volume far more effective than a box of chocolates.
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Drunk Hudson Valley Driver Caused 'Catastrophic injuries'
Bobby Welber
Saugerties Police
Two suffered catastrophic injuries after their drunk driver crashed their car in the Hudson Valley.
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On Friday in Ulster County Court, John Tyler Kuhn pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular assault and DWI.
On Jan. 6, Kuhn was the driver of a car that was involved in a one-car crash on Route 32 in Saugerties. Kuhn drove at a high rate of speed and lost control of his vehicle when he ignored a double yellow line and attempted to pass a vehicle, police say.
While passing, he was forced to take evasive action to avoid a head-on collision with an oncoming vehicle and crashed into a tree, according to the Ulster County District Attorney's Office.
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The collision resulted in what officials describe as "catastrophic injuries" to two other passengers. Another passenger was treated for minor injuries and released from the hospital. Kuhn sustained facial lacerations.
On Friday, Kuhn confessed he was drunk and his reckless intoxicated driving resulted in the serious physical injuries sustained by two of his passengers.
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Q: GridLine not visible in html I have a table in which I have applied some css i.e.
table tr{
            border:1px solid black;
        }

The problem is wherever tr is empty the border is not being show. I have attached a snapshot. I need to know where I am wrong.

A: add   whereever value is not being shown.

A: Using CSS, you can use just
table { empty-cells: show; }

in a style sheet, to suggest that all empty cells be displayed as normal cells.


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Q: Java: possible wrong abstract class impletaion I chose this title because I noticed that I did something wrong with the implantation of abstract class but I'm not quite sure what yet.
I created the MoveAble abstract class for training purposes and created the Ball class from it. Also I created a GetPosition() method only for the moveAble class and use it from the ball class.
But when I called GetPosition() on any ball object, i got the position varibale of the Moveable Abstract object instead.
I'm guessing its suppose to be that way, but from my understanding we can't use abstract class anyway, so I need to be able to get the position value of the child class even if I implemented this method only on the parents class.
Note: I'm a beginner java programmer. there is probably a better way to do what I did, but that's what I came out with. I would like to hear what you guys think about it, A if you think it's all crooked and there is a better way for all of this I will be glad to learn it.
Moveable class:
public abstract class MoveAble {
    private int[] position = new int[2];
    private int[] velocity = { 1, 1 };

    public int[] getPosition() {
    return position;
    }
    public abstract void move(int width, int height) ;

The ball class:
public class Ball extends MoveAble{

    private int[] position = new int[2];
    private int[] velocity = { 1, 1 };

    public Ball(int x_position, int y_position) {

        position[0] = x_position;
        position[1] = y_position;
    }

    @Override
    public void move(int width, int height) {
        if (position[0] >  width - 30 || position[0] <  1) {
            velocity[0] *= -1;
        }
        if (position[1] > height - 30 || position[1] <  1) {
            velocity[1] *= -1;
        }
        position[0] += velocity[0];
        position[1] += velocity[1];

    }

A: In the code provided,  the fields position and velocity of MoveAble within Ball were hidden. As rodit pointed out, there is no need to hide the fields in your case. If we remove the fields position and velocity from Ball, we get the expected result.
As to the reason why the program does what it does: even if we hide the fields within Ball, the method public int[] getPosition() stems from MoveAble and within MoveAble, the fields of MoveAble (and those from its superclass) are visible.
One last note: MoveAble satisfies more the conditions of an interface than an abstract class. Here is a discussion about when to use interfaces vs. when to use abstract classes

A: The problem is that you (re)defined a different position and velocity field in class Ball that, from within Ball and subclasses, overshadows the fields of the same name inherited from class MoveAble.
Remove the posiition and velocity fields from class Ball.  Change the access of the fields to protected in your base class MoveAble, or alternatively provide protected methods to allow subclasses access to that data.

A: You can use references that are abstract types.  (You just can't instantiate an abstract class.)  When you invoke their methods, the runtime behavior is that of the underlying concrete object they point to.
An abstract class can provide default behavior in methods if it's known. My guess is that your abstract class provides behavior that is perfectly acceptable to your Ball child class.
This is what polymorphism is all about. Object oriented programming has four important characteristics: abstract data types, encapsulation, polymorphism, and inheritance. Make sure you understand them thoroughly.
I think your mistake is giving both the abstract and concrete classes the same member variables. Where is the reuse in that?  Remove them from Ball and make them protected in the parent. Don't override methods in child unless they provide different behavior.

A: You can create an interface called IMovable so that you may refer to this object through its interface when you only care about movables...
Now, if you have common code across several subtypes, you can create an Abstract class and invoke its base class code in move, as I have done below, and then add subtype specific move logic in the subtype ... see below
public class Ball extends AbstractBall {
    public Ball(int x_position, int y_position) {
        super(x_position, y_position);
    }

    public void move(int width, int height) {
        super.move(width, height);
        System.out.println("SUBTYPE-CLASS MOVE IS CALLED");
    }

        public static void main(String[] args) {
                Ball ball = new Ball(10, 20);
                ball.move(1, 2);
        }
}

abstract class AbstractBall implements IMovable {

    protected int[] position = new int[2];
    protected int[] velocity = { 1, 1 };

    public AbstractBall(int x_position, int y_position) {
        position[0] = x_position;
        position[1] = y_position;
    }

    public void move(int width, int height) {

        System.out.println("BASE-CLASS MOVE IS CALLED");

        if (position[0] >  width - 30 || position[0] <  1) {
            velocity[0] *= -1;
        }
        if (position[1] > height - 30 || position[1] <  1) {
            velocity[1] *= -1;
        }
        position[0] += velocity[0];
        position[1] += velocity[1];
    }
}

interface IMovable {
    public void move(int width, int height);
}

Another benefit of referring to an instance via its interface is that eclipse auto-complete feature will limit it's list of items to the interface methods alone.

Compare that to the explosion of methods that are displayed in auto-complete when you refer to the same object but through its inheritance hierarchy.

Which one makes more sense?
import javax.swing.JButton;

public class Demo {

  public static void main(String[] args) {

    IPrintable instance1 = new PrintableButton();
    instance1.print();

    PrintableButton instance2 = new PrintableButton();
    instance2.print();
  }
}

interface IPrintable {
  public void print();
}

class PrintableButton extends JButton implements IPrintable {
  private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

  @Override
  public void print() {
    System.out.println("Printable Button");
  }
}


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Exo-Fauna
Terran dog
Canine mammalian life form of Planet Earth
The domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) is a subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus), a member of the Canidae family of the mammalian order Carnivora. The term "domestic dog" is generally used for both domesticated and feral varieties. The dog was the first domesticated animal and has been the most widely kept working, hunting, and pet animal in human history.[citation needed] The word "dog" can also refer to the male of a canine species,[1]as opposed to the word "bitch" which refers to the female of the species.
Recent studies of "well-preserved remains of a dog-like canid from the Razboinichya Cave" in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia concluded that a particular instance of early wolf domestication approximately 33,000 years ago did not result in modern dog lineages, possibly because of climate disruption during the Last Glacial Maximum.The authors postulate that at least several such incipient events have occurred. A study of fossil dogs and wolves in Belgium, Ukraine, and Russia tentatively dates domestication from 14,000 years ago to more than 31,700 years ago. Another recent study has found support for claims of dog domestication between 14,000 and 16,000 years ago, with a range between 9,000 and 34,000 years ago, depending on mutation rate assumptions. Dogs' value to early human hunter-gatherers led to them quickly becoming ubiquitous across world cultures. Dogs perform many roles for people, such as hunting, herding, pulling loads, protection, assisting police and military, companionship, and, more recently, aiding handicapped individuals. This impact on human society has given them the nickname "man's best friend" in the Western world. In some cultures, however, dogs are also a source of meat In 2001, there were estimated to be 400 million dogs in the world.
Most breeds of dog are at most a few hundred years old, having been artificially selected for particular morphologies and behaviors by people for specific functional roles. Through this selective breeding, the dog has developed into hundreds of varied breeds, and shows more behavioral and morphological variation than any other land mammal.[13] For example, height measured to the withers ranges from 15.2 centimetres (6.0 in) in the Chihuahua to about 76 cm (30 in) in the Irish Wolfhound; color varies from white through grays (usually called "blue") to black, and browns from light (tan) to dark ("red" or "chocolate") in a wide variation of patterns; coats can be short or long, coarse-haired to wool-like, straight, curly, or smooth.[14] It is common for most breeds to shed this coat.
For detailed information --> DOG
For the Intelligence raised Dogs --> See Smart Dogs
For the human/ dog hybrid of the Gene Clone period see: Dog People, Pet Girls, Dober-Man, Rott-Guard
For the controversial Cyber K9 progam see Battle-Dog, Track-Seekers, Dog Brain Drones
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Army-Navy: 'Game that really touches all of America'
by Stephen Ruiz
The 120th Army-Navy Game takes place at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 14, 2019. The United States Naval Academy defeated the United States Military Academy this year. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. James Harvey)
Michie Stadium, located on the U.S. Military Academy's campus at West Point, was built in 1924.
It has been the site of one Army-Navy football game, in 1943. The 121st annual renewal of arguably college football's best rivalry this weekend will make it No. 2.
The Black Knights (7-2) will host the Midshipmen (3-6 overall, 3-4 in the American Athletic Conference) at 3 p.m. Saturday in a game nationally televised by CBS. Michie Stadium is hosting the game after it was moved from Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia in October because of attendance limits on outdoor events in Pennsylvania caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Army is the designated home team this year, so the decision to change the location ensured the entire Corps of Cadets and Brigade of Midshipmen could attend. No fans are expected to be allowed in the stadium.
"I don't know that anything in this odd season that we're having seems out of the ordinary,'' Army coach Jeff Monken said. "I guess for me, it's just a little more matter of fact that this is what we've got to do in order to pull this game off. Playing it here is just what we had to do. ''
This meeting will be memorable, no matter the result.
The Army-Navy Game has been held on campus six times — the first four years (1890-93) that the service academies played; in 1942, when Navy won 14-0 at home; and in 1943, when Navy claimed a 13-0 victory. Since then, the game has been played at neutral sites in five cities, usually in Philadelphia. The rivalry has remained on the East Coast, except when Navy thumped Army 42-13 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, in 1983.
"There are a lot of great rivalries in our country, but they're all regional,'' Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo said. "As big as Ohio State and Michigan is, the people in Los Angeles don't care about that. And the same thing with Oklahoma-Texas. The people in Maryland don't care about that.
"The cool thing about this game is that in all 50 states, we all know someone who serves or has served in the Army or Navy or Marine Corps. It's a game that really touches all of America.''
Navy, whose 31-7 victory in 2019 gave it a 61-52-7 edge in the all-time series, has lost four games in a row.
While the Midshipmen are looking for their first victory in two months, defeating the Black Knights could help salvage a disappointing season, Niumatalolo said. The coach recalled in 2016, when Navy won its division of the AAC and defeated highly ranked Houston but lost to Army for the first time in 14 years.
"It's Army week,'' Niumatalolo said. "Our guys know what time it is. You don't need a lot of rah-rah speeches.''
The Midshipmen are led by Nelson Smith, who has rushed 117 times for 622 yards and eight touchdowns. Behind a balanced rushing attack, Army is averaging 296.7 yards per game on the ground — more than Navy's average of 292.6 yards per game.
On Saturday, none of those stats will figure in the outcome.
And, Monken said, neither will the rivalry coming to West Point for the first time in 77 years.
"I'm not going to let emotion get in the way of me or my job and providing the leadership that our program needs,'' said Monken, whose team will host Air Force on Dec. 19 before playing in the Independence Bowl on Dec. 26 in Shreveport, Louisiana. "… All that nostalgia and all that stuff, we can talk about that after the game. We've got a job to do. Our job is to try to win the game.''
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Stephen Ruiz
Stephen Ruiz, 53, worked in the newspaper industry for more than three decades. During the past 21 years, he worked for the Orlando Sentinel as a writer, copy editor and high school editor in the sports department. He also served as an online producer. Stephen graduated from Louisiana State University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and enjoys reading, cooking and exercising. He has completed three marathons.
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Monetary unit of Guyana is the dollar - to equal 100 cents. On territory of the country in circulation there are notes in nominal value 20, 100, 500 and 1000 dollars. The international designation - GYD . As the emitter the Bank of Guyana founded on October, 15th, 1965 (till May, 1966 was called as Bank of Guiana) acts.
In territory of the former British Guiana the West India dollar replaced in October, 1965 with an east caribbean dollar (Saint Kitts and Nevis see ) which issue was exercised by Administration of monetary circulation of the British Caribbean territories addressed. Since November, 15th, 1965 the recreated Bank of Guiana has started issuance of bank notes and coins in new (Guyanese) dollars. The exchange of east caribbean dollars for the new native currency was manufactured on a parity 1: 1.
The denomination of denomination in 100 dollars has the size 156 x 65 mm. On its face side on the right it is possessed The plotting of a map of the country, and in the center - an emblem of Bank of the country. On the back denominations the plotting is seated Cathedral of Sent-George. The note is protected by a watermark in the form of a parrot and map head. A protective strip with Retried inscription passes on the right side from the center. The metallized strip is put on the obverse The denomination party. Dominating colours - green, dark green and lilac.
The denomination of denomination of 1000 dollars has the size 156 x 65 mm. On its face side the plotting on the right is seated Maps of the country, and in the center - an emblem of Bank of Guyana. On a reverse the plotting of a building of Bank of the country is possessed. In Quality of protection the watermark in the form of a parrot and map head acts. A wide protective strip with an inscription Passes on the right side from the center. The metallized strip is put on denomination face side. Prevailing colours - green, brown and beige.
Notes of Guyana of series 2006 and 2011, were manufactured with minor alteration of design of the denomination, expressed in change of figures of nominal value on face sides and increase in degree of protection of the note from a fake.
On territory of the country the British pounds also are used Sterlings.


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